What's the deal with our playoff situation ? Has anyone heard anything as to where we will be holding our playoff matches this year ? The situation we are in with the NJSEA is garbage , but more importantly we should be looking into what is going to happen to GS for our playoff matches. Depending on where they house our next matches, it could be a possible away enviroment for us..basically fighting for homefield advantage this year is almost pointless.
Last home game for Metro: Thur. Sept 12 Last regular season Metro game: Sat. Sept 21 Giants Stadium events in late Sept / early Oct.: Sat 28th - Rolling Stones Oct 6th - Jets Oct 13 - Giants By the way there are eight American Football games scheduled between now and Sept 22nd, including pre-season, college, and regular season. The middle of the pitch and the sideline will be mud. I remember Nick saying something about playoff window dates, but I can't remember when they were.
This hasn't gotten much publicity, but over the summer the NJSEA actually bought a whole new set of trays. They now have two "fields" worth of trays. You can see them between Paterson Plank Road and the back of the race track, on a rarely used overflow parking lot. This should help keep the field from deteriorating like the last NFL season. These trays have to be custom made and cost millions of dollars, so it looks like even if the Metros leave NJSEA is commited to using grass!
I'm suprised we haven't seen more trays. From what I know (which isn't much), I'm sure the Jets and Giants are much happier with them than what was before.
I'm not doubting your word, but if they were really committed to putting in a grass field they would rip up the concrete and plastic shite that they have underneath the current trays and put in a permanent grass field.
They always did, even when we first got them they had 2 fields worth of them. They just dont change them for us.
That would make it impossible to repair with all the play that field gets. If the trays were just rotated like they are supposed to it should work fine.
They are better off with the trays. Giants Stadium has an excellent drainage system under the pitch. No matter how hard it rains the grass will never puddle or flood . ----- The new set of trays *are* new. In previous seasons they have only had 1 field + 1/4 worth of trays. The Giants & Jets told them to buy the extra trays or switch to turf.
Are these the "reserve" trays ? Not being savvy enough to paste in a jpg, kindly view Real Madrid's official website and it's extensive report on the team's visit to Nueva York - in particular: 9 de agosto - Entrenamiento. I believe the photograps are taken of a Real practice, the morning after the friendly, on said parking lot ( ? ). I suppose, with the Empire State Building appearing just a long kick away in the background, the photo report proves that the team was in Nueva York.
I was pleasantly surprised by Mitchell field, although it does have a running track. Does the Rutgers stadium have a track around it?
is it really going to be mitchel??? i was hoping for that since I live so close to it. If the games are going to be held there im sure i can get my school soccer team and my club soccer team to go to the games and support the metros
Considering a large portion of the season ticket base is from NJ Mitchell Field might not be the shoe-in everyone thinks it is. Then again this is the Metro front office we are talking about.
I don't really think they want Mitchel because it's a a shoo-in-- I think it's simply the ONLY place they can find to play a playoff series. NJ residents need to take it up with the NJSEA, not the MFO.
Any possibility of using the Newark Bears stadium ? I'm sure it wouldn't be too pricey to convert it into a soccer pitch for a few games.
Here is part of an email i received from some metro dude: "Right now it looks like Mitchell Field on Long Island. It's not official yet."